Jeff sat on the table, one among a small pile of clean diapers. Time had lost its meaning. He'd been on the receiving end of her bowel movements for an eternity. He had spent his time resting with a small pile of clean diapers, riding around on his sister, or sitting in a pail of nasty dirty diapers. Every time he felt, smelled, and tasted the foulness that exuded from his wearer, his mother simply threw him away. She was oblivious; with every use he was doomed to another 48 hours. It didn't seem to matter that his sister had gone up sizes, or that for the remainder of the time he was not in use, his sister worked through hundreds of other diapers. He always seemed to be selected, sometimes immediately after reverting back to a clean diaper, sometimes just moments before he would have transformed back to human.
Long ago he had given up on being human again. He had tried begging, with everything in his mind, to fade into oblivion, to die so to speak. Not that a diaper could die, but perhaps he could decompose and that would end the torture. But no one answered, no one could hear him. He couldn't even go properly crazy. He would lose his mind sitting in the dirty pail, but every time he found himself clean, his mind felt fresh but with the memories of the latest ordeal intact.
Then, it happened. Jeff woke in his own room, fully human. He lay on his bed, unwilling to move, not sure if it was real. Then he started to sob, he couldn’t believe it was over. He turned on the screen of the computer and saw the date, he’d been transformed over 300 times. Looking in the mirror, he looked fully two years older. The chronovac software was still running. Jeff clicked through the history, every detail of his ordeal was recorded. He found his original stats from more than two years ago and clicked on them. The chronovac displayed his description. At the bottom of the page, he found an option to “revert to these setting.”
Jeff turned off the monitor and left his room, his mother and sister were just exiting the bathroom and his mother was praising her for doing such a good job going potty. Jeff may have looked older, but he had no memories of the last two years, except of being a diaper. Two years of his life gone and with a tortured mind that no one would be able to understand.
Jeff went back to his room, selected his original stats on the Chronovac and clicked revert. “A time inversion has been selected: retain memories, modify memories, no memory.” Jeff selected to...